Most of the mosques in the Islamic world fall under specific and known forms and patterns to a large extent, and such patterns have grown and evolved from the few basic and uniform models, but they changed slowly due to the impact with a mixture of changing functional requirements and cultural landscapes because of the variables of time and place to form patterns known and famous in this day across parts of the Islamic world and its borders. There was no exception to these patterns, but small numbers of mosques that were probably the result of personal experiences or improvisational resolutions, or in response to specific or temporary stimuli. However, the emergence of a specific pattern which does not belong to any of these patterns, but opposes it in founded design and planning, and the spread of this new style - surprisingly - in a vast area, and its appearance clearly and strikingly , is really visible phenomenon worthy of attention, study and investigation. The emergence of the problem of this research is by observing a specific pattern of the mosques characterized by differences evident in the features of the general planning - a combination of the distribution of events in the schemes of the mosques - and the details of architectural form - external and internal – and its functional formation such as the nature related to functional components of those mosques with each other which distinguish this style of mosques of any known pattern of common patterns of mosques throughout the world, and the Islamic world in particular, and within a certain area which is province of Sulaymaniyah, and in particular its position and a specific time period which lasted for two or three decades. Hence the idea of this research to study the pattern of an updated planning and architecture of mosques bearing the features that distinguish them from normal patterns of mosques, as this work attempts to ascertain the causes and variables that called for the emergence of such a pattern, assuming a range of cultural influences and natural reasons for this phenomenon based on the study of models and samples selected randomly from those mosques in the period of time specified by the search for the consideration of the statistical implications on one hand and the study of the determinants of design in those models on the other hand and that to know the most influential elements in causing these changes that generated the problem of this research which led to the emergence of this un ique style that characterized the mosques of this region from other mosques in the Islamic world.
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Biaxial hollow slab is a reinforced concrete slab system with a grid of internal spherical voids included to reduce the self-weight. This paper presents an experimental study of behavior of one-way prestressed concrete bubbled slabs. Twelve full-scale one-way concrete slabs of (3000mm) length with rectangular cross-sectional area of (460mm) width and (150mm) depth. Different parameters like type of specimen (solid or bubbled slabs), type of reinforcement (normal or prestress), range of PPR and diameter of plastic spheres (100 or 120mm) are considered. Due to the using of prestressing force in bubbled slabs (with ratio of plastic sphere diameter D to slab thickness H, D/H=0.67), the specimens showed an increase in ultimat
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